Speaking to students at the historically-black Texas Southern University last week, Clinton called for a nationwide standard of at least 20 days of early in-person voting.

“What is happening is a sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people and young people from one end of our country to another,” Clinton said, noting that GOP hopefuls Rick Perry, Scott Walker and Jeb Bush had all signed laws designed to stifle voting rights.

“Let’s not pretend Hillary Clinton doesn’t know exactly what she’s doing here,” Pavlich replied. “She needs black voter turnout in 2016 in order to win. And the way that she’s going to do that is by perpetuating this bogus, race-baiting narrative that somehow voter ID laws disenfranchise minority voters.”

“First of all, it’s not true. Second of all, it’s shameless,” she continued. “It’s a losing issue for her. Unfortunately, she’s decided to go down that race-baiting route in order to get that demographic to come out and vote for her because she’s hurting for votes at this point.”

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